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namaste faggots posted:i'm surprised you dumb assholes can't seem to add up that i'm a raging shithead precisely because i make more than most 1% boomers yet live like a loving prole because i'm not a loving idiot To be fair you did choose to have a kid so if you are really trying to min/max your way to a well funded and reasonably aged retirement, you kind of shot yourself in the foot. And knee. Scrimp to fill that RESP so they can blow it on a medieval literature degree bitchhhhhh
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Stickarts posted:Apparently the citizens of Regina don't even care about Regina, so I don't have much in the way of a retort. 20%. Im almost at the point where I would welcome mandatory voting. Just need to get rid of FPTP oh right thanks Liberals.
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namaste faggots posted:i'm surprised you dumb assholes can't seem to add up that i'm a raging shithead precisely because i make more than most 1% boomers yet live like a loving prole because i'm not a loving idiot My wife and I make $170k combined. We have zero debt and do not own a home. There are dipshits who made nearly as much during the oil boom and are now destitute. Salary alone does not dictate wealth; intelligence and salary does. Also hello from France, phone posting on a Eurostar. To appease Fluffy Chainsaw I'll start to post poo poo about how things are better here than in Canada--which in reality they are.
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Oct 27, 2016 13:14
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OSI bean dip posted:My wife and I make $170k combined. We have zero debt and do not own a home. There are dipshits who made nearly as much during the oil boom and are now destitute. Salary alone does not dictate wealth; intelligence and salary does. Agree about the France thing I didn't want to come back home after visiting. Too bad the EU is falling apart due to economic stresses and is having to deal with the first waves of mass migrants due to climate change and war. I doubt it'll be nearly as nice a decade from now. But at least they'll still have walkable communities.
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Oct 27, 2016 13:52
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vyelkin posted:Taxes start at 0% and go up 1% for every $10,000 you make, topping out at 90% on incomes over $900,000. Before or after tax income? 
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Stickarts posted:Apparently the citizens of Regina don't even care about Regina, so I don't have much in the way of a retort. 20%. I've only lived in Regina for a couple years but I received no information from the city on when the election was taking place, where I was supposed to go to vote, or even who the candidates for my ward, mayor, and school board were. Almost like they didn't want me to vote. At least in Saskatoon they gave you a loving card that had some information on it. I suppose you could argue that I should exercise my civic duty and look it up, and you'd be right, but they sure don't make it easy.
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Oct 27, 2016 14:09
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Yea, this is partly on the city. North Central, one of the poorest urban centers in Canada, where many residents are elderly, working class or lower, or don't own a car, had one of its three polling stations halfway across the city. I live there and received my voter card in the mail but I know of many who didn't. Either through ignorance, arrogance, or malfeasance, the City was pretty much acting like this election didn't exist. And our mayor had the audacity to claim the low turnout was, in fact, a sign of support.
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Oct 27, 2016 14:24
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vyelkin posted:Canada has fallen from first to 25th in the world on gender equality according to the UN. The guardian has been tearing Trudeau a new rear end in a top hat lately, it's great.
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Oct 27, 2016 14:30
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Unless someone is in the investor/capital class they can't and wont simply move away when faced with larger taxes. Also we have progressive tax brackets. Also small business owners barely pay any taxes, they keep a lot of the money in the business and use it to buy houses and cars for family and pay out salaries to their cousins who don't work for them.
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Oct 27, 2016 14:33
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OSI bean dip posted:My wife and I make $170k combined. We have zero debt and do not own a home. There are dipshits who made nearly as much during the oil boom and are now destitute. Salary alone does not dictate wealth; intelligence and salary does. So you're part of the middle class, thanks for sharing. Since we are sharing  I'm at most 3 years from being mortgage free on my McMansion, before 35. I'll email Cbc to get profiled and I'll let them know my secret is having stairs in my home.
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And if you want to blame someone for our lovely zoning and infrastructure then blame our lovely municipal politicians. They are entirely captured by developers who simply subdivide a piece of farmland and build whatever is cheapest for them with the greatest margins because they know Canadians will buy whatever they build. For so long as the cities let developers do whatever they want we will get poo poo with high infrastructure and public costs.
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cowofwar posted:And if you want to blame someone for our lovely zoning and infrastructure then blame our lovely municipal politicians. They are entirely captured by developers who simply subdivide a piece of farmland and build whatever is cheapest for them with the greatest margins because they know Canadians will buy whatever they build. For so long as the cities let developers do whatever they want we will get poo poo with high infrastructure and public costs. This is becoming a really bad issue here in Hamilton, to the extent that it's blindingly obvious which city councillors are owned by development firms, but no-one seems to be willing to do anything about it.
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Oct 27, 2016 14:40
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And in Regina, our mayor was the head of the Regina Construction Association up until being elected.
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Oct 27, 2016 14:42
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How high can we raise taxes before CI decides to finally give up and leave? That's about the threshold right there.
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Oct 27, 2016 15:28
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In Winnipeg our mayor took the proper stance for once and said he wanted to implement development fees for any further subdivisions to curb the impact urban sprawl is having on city budgets but our premier is taking the side of the developers who are currently screaming, crying and throwing their toys out of their crib.
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Oct 27, 2016 15:30
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OPSEU internal statement on Trudeau's recent comments:quote:To: All OPSEU members I think it's pretty well said.
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Oct 27, 2016 15:35
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I really really hope that by the time the next election comes up people start realizing that the Trudeau smile is more of a smirk.
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Oct 27, 2016 15:40
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Do you guys remember the fawning over Justin that went on in here after he won the leadership?
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DariusLikewise posted:How high can we raise taxes before CI decides to finally give up and leave? That's about the threshold right there. make the top tax bracket 69% so nobody can complain about it without people giggling about the sex number
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Oct 27, 2016 15:44
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Three Hole Punk posted:make the top tax bracket 69% so nobody can complain about it without people giggling about the sex number Better yet, make the top tax bracket 420%, now that's something trudeau might actually go for
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Oct 27, 2016 15:46
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EvilJoven posted:I really really hope that by the time the next election comes up people start realizing that the Trudeau smile is more of a smirk. My hope was a minority government (either NDP or Liberal led), I was still hopeful that Sunny Jim here would still do a decent job but I was so, so wrong. I asked my ex who regularly meets with cabinet ministers and House committee chairs about how she was feeling about the current government and all she could say was "leadership is hard", I refrained from answering back "what loving leadership".
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Oct 27, 2016 15:53
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EvilJoven posted:I really really hope that by the time the next election comes up people start realizing that the Trudeau smile is more of a smirk. Perhaps next election you will be the jaded Ikantski to a fresh crop of gullible young Liberal enthusiasts.
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Oct 27, 2016 16:00
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I voted beardy, you guys deserve this real change like the #ERRE
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I was never ever a Liberal enthusiast. Despite Mulcair losing the election by campaigning from the centre I would have still voted NDP in my riding if not for the fact that it was a dead heat between the Liberal and CPC candidate. At most I let myself become cautiously optimistic because I thought that under a Liberal banner we would at least see a massive reduction in police spending, crime, and incarceration rates by legalizing marijuana and that during the next election I wouldn't have to vote strategically thanks to election reform. Now I'm pretty sure we are going to see neither and during the next election I won't vote Liberal even if the reincarnation of Hitler is at risk of winning the seat.
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Oct 27, 2016 16:07
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I voted NDP even though the CPC MP in my riding was Stephen loving Woodworth.
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At the end of the day even though I'm pretty disappointed with the liberal party I also straight up don't care what else the Liberals do if they legalize weed and live up to the promise that FPTP is done. Mind you I also think that if the NDP hadn't imploded they'd be just as pathetically incompetent in office as the Liberals are so that colours my view.
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Oct 27, 2016 16:20
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patonthebach posted:Im not pro big business at all (im a incredibly staunch union guy, fair wages for all workers, etc) I just dont know how far you can go on taxing individuals to where you make it so the high earners just want to leave Canada and go to somewhere where they can save more of their money. If you are some kind of programmer ninja that is making killer iphone apps and getting paid 240 grand a year, do you want to take home 130 grand in Canada or 180 grand in USA? How about if you manage a snow plow company making 400 grand in revenue? Take home 300 of that in USA and invest/expand or stay in Canada and take home 210 grand. Those people left already and some of them are coming back across the border anyway because san fran and seattle kinda suck and are getting worse all the time.
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EvilJoven posted:In Winnipeg our mayor took the proper stance for once and said he wanted to implement development fees for any further subdivisions to curb the impact urban sprawl is having on city budgets but our premier is taking the side of the developers who are currently screaming, crying and throwing their toys out of their crib. Hahaha I was at the Manitoba Home Builders Awards Gala the other night and they are acting like it's the end of the world and "WE NEED TO FIGHT HOW DARE THE CITY DO THIS". It completely overshadowed the awards for the night and made him sound like a little baby. The big issue is developers gently caress off after building the homes and don't want to finish the neighbourhood infrastructure and want the city to pay for it. $1,000 for every 100 square feet of home built. If you pass on the cost to the price of the home (which the developers certainly will), you'll see an average 4-5% increase in price. A 2,100 sqft house going for $469,000 is now $490,900. Maybe we will get houses actually worth the cost? Like finished basements. It's also funny that there is so much doom and gloom in the industry about less building, but the truth is September 2016 had 1161 single family build applicants compared to September 2015's 970. Multi Family 2016 dropped to 437 from 451 in 2015. The drop and increase can be attributed to the top three developers, Qualico Drafting & Design, Randall Homes and Kensington Homes Ltd. switching from multi-family to single family homes. These numbers can be found here: http://winnipeg.ca/ppd/statistics_9.stm
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EvilJoven posted:I was never ever a Liberal enthusiast. Despite Mulcair losing the election by campaigning from the centre I would have still voted NDP in my riding if not for the fact that it was a dead heat between the Liberal and CPC candidate. 
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Jordan7hm posted:I also straight up don't care what else the Liberals do if they legalize weed and live up to the promise that FPTP is done But they will do neither, because otherwise what will they campaign on in 2019?
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Vasler posted:I've only lived in Regina for a couple years but I received no information from the city on when the election was taking place, where I was supposed to go to vote, or even who the candidates for my ward, mayor, and school board were. Almost like they didn't want me to vote. At least in Saskatoon they gave you a loving card that had some information on it. Yeah I admit I live in regina and didn't vote. I was busy at work at stuff, and I had no loving idea where I was supposed to vote, public policy, I don't remember getting much in the mail regarding policies, etc. I just happened to go by the YMCA while going to the gym and saw a polling station. I had no idea what each candidate stood for. I guess I should have put more effort in, but gently caress, give me something guys.
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PittTheElder posted:But they will do neither, because otherwise what will they campaign on in 2019? That's obviously possible, and maybe even likely, but I'm willing to wait more than a year to find out if these particular promises are broken (also it's not like I have a choice but to wait).
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I voted for Andrew Cash, and am still kinda bummed he lost. That said, Trudeau won on a platform of 'Not Harper', and true to his promise, he isn't Harper, just impossibly close to him in terms of policy. At least we got the long form census back.
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AlouetteNR posted:I voted for Andrew Cash, and am still kinda bummed he lost. That said, Trudeau won on a platform of 'Not Harper', and true to his promise, he isn't Harper, just impossibly close to him in terms of policy. At least we got the long form census back. Trudeau's skill is at being not Harper is really borderline admirable. Check out this platform bit. quote:Despite our health care system’s value and importance, it has been more than a decade since a Canadian Prime Minister sat down with provincial and territorial Premiers to strengthen the program, and ensure that it can meet current needs and the challenges that come with an aging population. No promises broken, he didn't say he was going to sit down with the premiers to talk about the health accord. Just pointed out that Harper didn't. I mean, pointing out that it'd been over a decade might make you think that he'd be in a rush to sit down with them but that's because you think bad. quote:Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has written back to Canada's provincial and territorial premiers, saying he will not commit to personally meet with them to discuss a new health accord before mid-December.
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